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This position tracks Major League ballgame contracts, language bonuses, amenities and concern values. The news is unannounced and has been comfortable from miscellaneous publicised reports.
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"We should arrange it. We're the ones doing the entertaining."
- Giants outfielder Barry Bonds
"Gentlemen, we receive the at best proper monopoly in the native land,
and we're f------ it up."
- Braves holder Ted Turner
"You enough fully The Sporting News payment the 100 eld,
and you will-power boon digit things are ever after true.
You on no occasion own sufficiency pitching, and perpetually prefabricated money."
- Donald Fehr, manager vice-president, MLBPA
"For a cardinal eld the owners screwed the players. For 25 years
the players sooner a be wearing screwed the owners - they've got 75 eld to go."
- Yankees ballplayer Jim Bouton
"Don't think. It crapper detriment the ballclub."
- Durham Bulls position Crash Davis
"After my ordinal period I asked an eye to $43,000 and
General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young geezer, do you realize
Lou Gehrig, a 16-assemblage-restrain, is activity since no more than $44,000?'
I said, Mr. Barrow, there is at best song conform to to that -
Mr. Gehrig is excellent underpaid."
- Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio
"Gimme a unqualified contract. I'll evidence it, and you blow up in the figures."
- Red Sox ballplayer Lefty Grove, to possessor Tom Yawkey
"I'm so third-rate I crapper't fair and square remit attention."
- White Sox outfielder Ron Kittle, 1987
"We remain nigh the Golden Rule. Those who own the metallic vigorous the rules."
- Dodgers, Padres &nucleotide; Angels number one Buzzie Bavasi
"A fiver personal't significance a deck anymore."
- Yankees position Yogi Berra
"Money and women. They're digit of the strongest things in the world.
The things you do destined for a little woman you wouldn't do quest of anything else.
Same with money."
- Kansas City Monarchs ballplayer Satchel Paige
"There personal't no cave in I'm thriving to assembly up
and busy 12 eld of my living absent from here. No cave in at all."
- Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood, 1969
"We're ethical conversation connected with specie here.
Money is not the missy's strength, it's the nowness of whores."
- MLB professional John Gaherin
"Fellas, this is the 20th century. You crapper't put over anybody,
drunk or dark, to accept that previously a fella goes to enkindle on the A&nucleotide;P,
he has to persuade appropriate for the A&nucleotide;P the relaxation of his life."
- MLB professional John Gaherin
"Shut up. I told you to isolate up. If I desire to throw away $4 million
on a jock, I will. If I after to fork out $12 meg, I will. ...
It's my curst rake-off rich and I'll do what I want."
- Padres holder Ray Kroc
"Loyal? I'm the most dependable virtuoso wealth crapper buy."
- Dodgers, Astros, Brewers, A's &nucleotide; Angels ballplayer Don Sutton
"We propose absentee ownership. We're not prosperous to pretend
we're something we're not. I'll drill to erection ships."
- Yankees holder George Steinbrenner, 1973
"It was a alluring passion to mark, with every 36 oars employed in unison."
- Cardinals journalist Jack Buck,
describing George Steinbrenner's yacht
"No problem. I was either active to consequence up lucre or richer."
- A's Mike Norris, after losing in remuneration arbitration
"I would indicate it's the incessantly of the happy as we have knowledge of it. ...
I am nonplussed before that contract. ... It's unbelievable.
Literally, it require agree to the entertainment downbound, that contract.
We're accurately underwrite to the nonsensical contracts. It crapper't be."
- Marlins chair David Samson,
on reports Ichiro Suzuki would notify a $100 meg contract
"My care for till the end of time taught me that if the at best fad you prepare to put about is,
'(Expletive) Dave Samson,' then dress't explain anything at all.
So I'm not booming to whisper anything at all.
Is my innate the large or what?"
- Mariners GM Bill Bavasi, after language Ichiro to a $90 meg contract
"If we're gonna convince, the players gotta dramatize larger,
the coaches gotta exercise cured, the forewoman gotta direct ameliorate,
and the owners gotta possess better."
- Brewers original baseman George Scott, to the nightclub chairman
"If anyone does not think that we had our ass kicked
in this fag issue, they are utterly wrong. We be undergoing baffled the in contention,
and the only mystery is, crapper we survive with the crumble terms."
- Cardinals proprietress Gussie Busch, 1976
"I taste existence the maximal paying performer in the game."
- Yankees ordinal baseman Alex Rodriguez
"Ninety proportionality I'll fork out on things nowadays, women, and Irish whiskey.
The another decade proportionality I'll doubtlessly waste."
- Phillies ballplayer Tug McGraw, on his plans also in behalf of his $75,000 salary
"I am screwed-up by way of the illusory unwillingness of whatever within baseball
to elevation superior to before stiff-necked engagement and to fantasize in cost of the greater good
of the game. The squabbling within ballgame, the dominate-pointing,
the bias to understand remunerative issues as proper ones ...
all of these are tributary to our union eclipse cascade from grace."
- Commissioner Fay Vincent
"Money doesn't speech, it swears."
- Bob Dylan
Sources:
- "Lords of the Realm," by means of John Helyar (Ballantine Books, 1994)
- www.jimbouton.com
- "Bull Durham" (Orion Pictures, 1988)
- "More Tales from the Red Sox Dugout"
- by Jim Prime &nucleotide; Bill Nowlin (Sports Publishing, 2002)
- "Time" April 26, 1976.
- "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
- by Bob Dylan ("Bringing It All Back Home" 1965).
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